A blowout at speed is mostly about the first three seconds. Hold the wheel straight and firmly, keep off the brake, let the car slow itself, and steer for the nearside once the speed has come down. On a heavy 4x4 the pull is strong and the urge to correct hard is stronger. Resist it. Get clear of the live lanes, get everybody out on the far side from the traffic, and only then start thinking about the tyre.
The tyre itself is not a decision. A casing that has come apart at speed is scrap and there is no version of this where somebody repairs it. What is a decision, and the one nobody gets warned about, is what goes back on. On a permanent four wheel drive vehicle every tyre has to roll the same distance in one revolution, and a brand new tyre is measurably taller than the three worn ones it is joining. The drivetrain has no way of ignoring that. It takes up the difference through a centre differential or a coupling, continuously, on every journey, and that is not what those parts are there for.
Tell us four things on the phone and the van finds you first time. Where you are stopped and which direction you were travelling; the make and model; the size off the sidewall of any tyre on the car; and whether you are somewhere exposed. Stopped on Jamaica Road in the dark counts, and we will say so on the call. The wheel comes off in Grange, not on a ramp in Mile End. Nothing is towed out of Bermondsey or Rotherhithe; the work finishes there.
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Jamaica Road and the approach to Tower Bridge are the wrong place to be stationary and a worse place to be making decisions. Get the car off the running lanes first and worry about the tyre afterwards. Once you are stopped somewhere sensible, the question on a 4x4 is never simply which tyre; it is what the other three are carrying, and answering that takes a gauge rather than a glance. Better to spend five minutes on it at the kerb than to meet a ruined coupling in six months.
A driver lost a rear tyre in the outside lane on Jamaica Road and brought the car down without touching the brakes. We fitted at the kerb once the car was properly clear of the running traffic.
A 4x4 fitted with a single new tyre elsewhere had begun to shudder and bind on full lock in slow turns. That is the drivetrain telling you the four wheels are being asked to disagree with each other.
The happier version of the same call. A car near Surrey Quays lost a tyre while the other three were barely worn, so one replacement matched them closely enough and nothing further needed doing.
Sometimes you can, and where the other three are close to new that is exactly what we will fit. The question is how much tread the survivors are carrying. A new tyre alongside three half worn ones stands taller than they do, and on a four wheel drive car that difference has to go somewhere.
The part that allows the axles to turn at different rates: a centre differential, a viscous coupling or a clutch pack, depending on the car. It is built to take up momentary differences through a corner, not a permanent one on every straight road. It heats, wears and eventually fails.
Usually yes, in a milder form. On demand systems still have a coupling sitting between the axles, and it is still being asked to make up a difference that never goes away. Worth checking the handbook, because most makers state a tolerance and it tends to be tight.
The common car, SUV and 4x4 fitments travel with us, which is why most roadside failures across SE1 and SE16 finish on the first visit. Where a size is unusual we say so on the phone rather than after arriving, and we tell you before starting whether one tyre is the right answer.
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